June 7 Wednesday – Sam wrote from Elmira to Orion and Mollie. Sam explained why he had to leave them so abruptly at Twichell’s church door (to speak to Gov. Marshall Jewell and apologize for not being able to accept him into their sick-house in Buffalo.) Sam “did not go on the hill today & have not seen Pamela & Sammy,” who had been in Elmira at the Elmira Water Cure, on the way to Quarry Farm.

Sometime between this date and Sept. 28 Sam sent a picture of Susan Crane with baby Langdon to Bret Harte. No letter accompanied the photograph, which was inscribed: “The most determined singer in America sends his warm regards to the most notorious” [MTL 4: 397-8].